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Baseball season is finally upon us, which got us at Estately wondering what it costs to live within walking distance of a Major League Baseball stadium? We crunched real estate listing data for homes (houses/condos/townhouses) within two miles of each stadium that were listed for sale in March to determine the median list price. The results show San Francisco Giants fans would...
March Madness might be over for basketball, but the Seattle-area housing market is still getting warmed up as we enter the spring home buying season. It’s no surprise that Seattle is a hot real estate market (#thanksamazon), and this year it appears the bidding war craze is spreading eastward, with towns like Redmond, Issaquah, and Bellevue topping the March Bidding War Madness list. Seattle-Area...
According to Glassdoor, the average annual base salary for a Google software engineer is $126,787—more than four times the median personal income across the rest of the country. However, when it comes to buying a home that salary’s buying potential can vary widely depending on which Google office one lives near. Estately measured February home sale data within two miles of Google’s...
There are a lot of things to consider when choosing which state to live in (job prospects and median home prices), but have you considered the online shopping habits of each state’s inhabitants? This probably reveals more about the character of the state than anything else. To better know these United States, we here at Estately used Google Trends to measure...
You may know that Estately is a great site and app for finding your dream home, but did you know Estately is also working to bring America together as a nation? It’s true. Even in these politically polarizing times, we believe there are things that people from all ends of the political spectrum can find common ground on, primarily that there are...
Bay Area home buyers know firsthand the horrors of trying to buy a home in a hot market. Listed home prices are usually just a jumping-off point, and buyers often find themselves competing against numerous other buyers offering far more than the list price. Here at Estately, we were curious to see how common bidding wars are in cities across the country....